Dit document bevat 23 artikelen : 1. The origin and development of four creoles in the gulf of Guinea. 2. The syntax of Creole languages. 3. Pidgin and Creole languages. 4. Typical creoles and simple languages : the case of Sinitic. 5. The gradual creolization model from a second language acquisition perspective. 6. A summary and interpretation of the factors identified as responsible for the differing ways in which the Creole languages of the Indian ocean evolved. 7. Prolegomena to any sane creology. 8. Creoles, complexity, and Riau Indonesian. 9. Olla podrida : language mixing, pidgins, and creolization. 10. Het creeren van een taal : creooltalen. 11. Articles and plural formation in creoles : change and universals. 12. Dutch Creole-English Creole distancing : historical and contemporary data considered. 13. Pidgins and creoles. 14. The structure of tense and aspect in Barbadian English Creole. 15. Contributions to the study of Creole. 16. Creolistics and sociolinguistic theories. 17. A note on some possible affinities between the Creole dialects of the old world and those of the new. 18. The Caribbean creoles. 19. Language birth : the processes of pidginization and creolization. 20. Ditransitive constructions : Creole languages in a cross-linguistic perspective. 21. Traces of Portuguese in three Caribbean creoles : evidence in support of the monogenetic theory. 22. The acquisition of functional categories : the creole way. 23. Naturalistic adult acquisition of French as L2 and French-based creole genesis compared : insights into creolization and language change.

Dit document bevat 6 artikelen : 1. The Creole Copula that highlighted in the world. 2. Sociolinguistic history and the creolist. 3. Variability of the Copula in black English and its Creole kin. 4. Popular Brazilian Portuguese : a semi-creole. 5. Atlantic meets Pacific : lexicon common to the English-based Pidgins and Creoles. 6. The spread of English in the Caribbean area.